The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-01-14
EMPRESS EUGENIE,s SON.

Unauthehticated Story to the Effect That He
Left an Illegitimate Son.
London Special to New York World
The Paris Figaro published yesterday, a long
article concerning an alleged liaison of the late
Prince Imperial of France with young Eng
lisb woman. The story processes to be the cor
rect and substantiated version of facts which
have hitherto been only circulated as rumors.
According the latter the Prince was represented
as having contracted secret marriage. the ex-
act facts of which his family have been unable
to clear mp since his DEATH The Figaro asserts
that he was never married, but that he left an
il1egitirnate son the result Of his intimacy
with the English girl in question. The truth of
the whole matter, according to the Figaro,
is thas while the Prince living in
England he one day met handsome young girl
in a railroad train, and made her acquaintance in
the way that such acquaintanees are sometimes
made, without, however revealing his identity.
The acquaintance immediately rpened into a
warm attachment and the two were together a
great Deal in London. At the time the Prince
often visited London, and had rooms at Du
montsy a French hair dresser. Dumon was re-
ported to be deeply attached to him, and the
room used by the Prince remains to this day
just ashe left it He had great freedom there,
entertained his friends as he pleased. and the in
ference is that he met his young English mis-
tress there. One day when he and she were
walking along the streets che spoke OF the re-
markable similarity between his face and that
shown IN the photographs of the Prince Impe-
rial, which were displayed everywhere in the
shop windows. He blushe6, and said he
had been told that before. When he was just
ready To depart for Zululand, where he subse-
quently lost his life, he came near revealing his
identisvin the midst of the emotion by which he
was overwheImed but he restrained himself and
only said he was going on long journey. When
the news of the Princes death reached England
his picture exhibited more tnan ever, and
the young girl he had left to mourn his mex
plicable absence took one of these pictures to
Dumons and asked him if it was not picture of
her absent lover. He had to confess 1t was In
the meaatirae son had been born. and this the
mether Mtrsied in her arnn, 90 Gsmddn=sk ksOuss,
Chiselhurst, where the ex- Empress Eugene
lived. But she was thrust out no heed being
given to her story, and in her humiliation and
distress she embarked for Australia, where she
and her offspring now live.
/ went in search of Dumont to-day. His shop
is at No. 100 Regent street, on the second floor,
quiet, cosy place, where exclusive people go to
| have their hair dressed. There was terra Gotta
| statuette of the Prince on the mante piece, rep
| resep ting him in the rigidity of death after he
| had been pierced by the assagais of the Zulus.
A large portrait of him hung the wall, and
| one of his fathers just above it. There were
| other smaller portraits and mementos of the
| Prince about the room. NJ Dumont is a pleas
| ant man Of about fifty-fve. He said it was true
that the Prince was at one time in the habit
| of coming to his place. There a
| little up stairs formerly occupied
| by another gentleman, where he used
| to go to dress previous to going to levees and
| receptions. He would come to have his hair
| dressed and then retire to that room, which was
always at his disposal, but he did not sleep there.
| Nor was it true that any young woman had come
| to him (Dumontl with photograph OF the
| Prince after his death and asked him it it was
| not that Of her lover. He had known of a wom-
| man who was in love with the Prince and who
| used to haunt his residence at Chselhurst but
| he believed she crazy, and that the Prince
| never had anything to do with her. He said he
| had this woman repeatedly, but that she
was much older than the Prince and that it was
| absurd to believe that he should have had a
| laison with her
| Much interest has been aroused in Paris over
the publication Of the Figaro's article, and it is
believed there that it has at least basis of